Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-22
WEATHER AND CROPS.
A Number OF the Wheat States Report q
Very Light Yield, Kansas Making
the Worst Showing.
A General Deficiency of Rainfall in Most
Sections OF the Country, Especially
in the Cotton Belt,
Crop Sum

CHICAGO, ILL, July 1.-THE following
summary will be printed in this weeks
edItion;of the Farmers Review. The
drouth throughout the northwestern
states Is ipjuring 81 crops more OF less
. Corn, although materially damaged so far
is commencing to show the effects of the
dry season and must suffer cOnsid-
erably if rain does rot fall soon and in
sufficient quantities. As result of the
/ drouth, the cat crop is ripening
/ too fast and will hardly make
thTee-fourths of an average crop if the
drouth continues. Estimates Of the
average yield of winter wheat 10 the
different states, compiled from reports of
thTeshing and calculations of PROBABLE
returns, are as follows:
Sixteen counties in Illinois, ) bushels {:
this is 8 falling of of > bushels as COM
pared with our report of last week
Morgan county reports yield as high as
Is bushels, and Pope as low as bushels
Twelve counties in Indiana give an
average OF l > bushels per acre. Four
Kansas counties report yieid Of !
bushels, but others report returns as light
to very poor; the yield of the whole state
is undoubtedly poor. Four counties IN
Kentucky report II bushels. Three
Michigan counties report Is bushels.
Eleven counties in Missouri report
an average yield of ~ bushels.
Our ONO reports indicate
fair to good yield Of wheat
but figures are not given. Reports from
Wisconsin place the yield at from four
teen TO twenty bushels per acre. Re
ports on the condition of spring wheat
are as follows: Nineteen counties in
Iowa place the average at - per cent.
Carroll, Cass, Clayton, Howard, Iowa,
KeOkuk and Madison counties can not
state an average, the crop being almost
totally destroyed By insects. Eleven
counties in Minnesota place the condition
at Z per cent. Twelve counties in Ne
brasks place the average condition at 81
per cent, and seven counties in Dakota
50 per cent. Insects are doing consider
able damage in some localities 10 corn,
the chinCh bugs having as we feared at
tackled this crop after harvesting of
winter wheat. The average condition of
crops as calculated from our reports re-
ceived last week in different ststes is IS
follows: twelve counties in Illinois re-
port on average condition of 81 per cent. (
Twelve Indiana counties, 90 per cent.
Seven counties in Ohio, 90 per cent. Four
teen Missouri counties repOr. condition
as higl as 1906 per cent, while thirteen
counties in Nebraska place it at l04 per
cent. and twentY-four counties in Iowa
beat these figures with an average Of l03
per cent. Fourteen counties in Minnesota
report condition at 80 per cent. and seven
counties in Wisconsin report like aver
age. Dakota counties LEAD the whole list
with an average Of l20 per cent. Six
Michigan counties place their average at
l0l per cent. and Kentucky COun-
ties reporting this week st 100
per cent. Nine Counties in Kansas re- |
port the average condition at l02 per
cent.
Pastures are suffering from lack of
rain.
Potatoes and apples do not promise |.
much more tnan half d crop. Hay hardly /.
reaches that figure.